MP Arzu Naghiyev visited the shahids’ memorial in the village of Esrik Chirdakhan of Tovuz Province, talked to shahids’ families and answered their questions on 4 January. MP Naghiyev remarked during the conversation that hundreds of young men of Tovuz had fought the enemy on the Patriotic War battlefields. The shahids whose names are inscribed in the Motherland’s scrolls in golden letters are forever remembered with awe and esteem; their patriotism is an example for the coming generations, according to MP Naghiyev.

Our historic victory had been won at the cost of the blood and sacrifice of those who had fallen at the war, the law-makers pointed out before thanking the shahid families for having raised such noble and outstanding sons who had loved their Motherland so much. The people and the state will forever hold the shahids in high esteem; their families will invariably be embraced with the state care.

The shahid families thanked the Head of State Mr Ilham Aliyev and First Vice President Mrs Mehriban Aliyeva for the care being taken of them.

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The 44-day Patriotic War shahid Lieutenant Vasif Nazim oglu Heydarov who was killed in action on the Fuzuli front was commemorated in the village of Aran Yanigli of Tovuz Province on his birthday – the 5^th of January.

MP Arzu Naghiyev joined the ceremony alongside officials of the local executive administration, the shahids’ family, other shahids’ relatives and members of the local public.

They went to Vasif Heydarov’s tomb, said prayers for his soul and paid their respect to his memory as well as that of the other unforgettable sons of the Motherland who laid down their lives for her.

It should be said that the shahid Vasif Heydarov is decorated with the 3^rd-class Order ‘For the Service to the Motherland’ and the medals ‘For the Motherland’ and ‘For Liberation of Fuzuli’ to the orders of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic in recognition of his participation in the battles for the restored territorial integrity of the country and for the meritorious discharge of the missions set before the detachment in which he had served.

The Press and Public Relations Department  
The Milli Majlis